In this talk, various trends in the current service economy are explained. Global economy has turned out to be a service-oriented economy, in addition to the fact that the economy is going along with more digitized information rather than just labor intensive human service activities. In Japan's case, for example, more than 70% of GDP has been created by service sectors in a broader sense recen...

The primary aim of this paper is pedagogical. We first present and discuss a “wiring diagram” framework in order to elucidate the general links between economic growth and "natural capital." After developing the general framework, we develop parallel frameworks applicable to several specific sectors of the economy (agriculture, forestry, and manufacturing). Two appendices provide a mathematical...

Peer-to-peer platforms in the realm of the sharing economy, such as Airbnb or BlaBlaCar, have heavily rattled the electronic commerce landscape and are expected to further impact consumer behavior in the future. While trust between the parties involved is of utmost importance in such platform economies, experimental research on this aspect is scarce. In this conceptual paper, we first present a...

The green economy, circular economy and bioeconomy are popular narratives in macro-level sustainability discussions policy, scientific research business. These three offer different recipes to address economic, social ecological goals, thus promoting pathways for transformations. We employ the well-known Framework Strategic Sustainable Development (The Natural Step Framework) comparatively iden...